Matthias, the autohinter can be activated with dpkg-reconfigure -- the bug is that when it is set, the body of OpenOffice still uses the bytecode interpreter.
And I don't understand your point with quoting that patent page; if anything, that means that the autohinter would be the correct option and that the font rendering in Ubuntu (bytecode interpreter) is illegal as it stands.
Matthias, the autohinter can be activated with dpkg-reconfigure -- the bug is that when it is set, the body of OpenOffice still uses the bytecode interpreter.
And I don't understand your point with quoting that patent page; if anything, that means that the autohinter would be the correct option and that the font rendering in Ubuntu (bytecode interpreter) is illegal as it stands.